26 Responses to “Epic Star Wars snark tee: "Show us on the trilogy where George hurt you"”

Really, that tired old joke again?
I think Jeffrey Rowland put it best:
“Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George Lucas did to your childhood. Rape is not what happens when a sports team beats another sports team by a wide margin. Rape is not what happens when your electric bill is higher this month than it was last month. Rape is when a person violates another person in the most despicable, degrading way imaginable and among the myriad of terrible things humans can do to one another, rape is among the worst. I think the casual misappropriation of the concept of rape extending all the way to its widespread comical usage is disgusting even by Internet standards. Off my chest.”

I read the shirt as a way of mocking all the idiots who liken the prequel trilogy (and the fourth Indiana Jones movie) to Lucas “raping their childhoods”. As if the shirt is responding “Oh yeah? Well, show me where Lucas touched you. He didn’t actually? Well, then it’s not like ‘raping your childhood’ at all, is it?”

This might be off topic, but i have a borderline case Tourette syndrome, and when i screw up, i reflexively make verbal threats of self-rape to myself. And when i make that threat of self-rape to myself it is NOT a joke. Indeed, i am often a victim of self-rape. But sometimes I do joke with myself about raping me, and then i all have a good laugh, but then afterwards, i worry i might be giving myself Stockholm syndrome.
(its hard to get anyone to believe how cruel i am to me, because i’m really nice to myself when i know i’m being observed,)

I have the original trilogy. I have the 1997 edition. I have the original prequels. I have no desire for any of the others. George did not rape me or commit any crime on my person or childhood or psyche. The movies are his to play with as he sees fit. My problem is the deleted scenes were not interleafed into the dvds. I would have preferred that to having to go back and forth. The Lord of the Rings had that version with deleted scenes and scenes for the dvds placed in order within the movies. I don’t want to talk about what Jackson cut out or put in here.

Well the dictionaries he’s referring to could be Websters, which is considered to be pretty standard. But even if you look at something more dynamic and contemporary like wordnet, you will still find ‘destroy and stripped of possessions’ to be one of many definitions for rape. The fact that someone is complaining about the word being used
repeatedly when ‘forcing sexual intercourse’ isn’t what is meant might also show that these other definitions are still in common usage.

But beside my pedantic definition crazyness probably not being niggardly enough for you, you might consider hyperbole and humor as being acceptable reasons to abuse literal definitions, irregardless of whether others couldn’t care less or not…

PS rape might also be a good word to describe the affect boing-boing through disqus has on our privacy due its requirement to allow cookies from ‘all domains’ in order to post here, sigh.